The Craze of Christina — page 165: what you’re looking at

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The Craze of Christina. 161 ‘‘And this horrible butler of yours would, I suppose, come into the money you would for- feit if you were to send him away?” inquired Miss Pratt. ‘‘No; that is the curious part of pare gains nothing. My uncle left him a competence for life. The twenty thousand pounds would go to a distant cousin of my uncle’s—a man called Charles Greville, who lives in Australia—a man who hasn’t a shadow of a right to it, as I need hardly tell you.” “Oh, indeed!’ and Chris looked away thoughtfully, and as a matter of fact her temper secretly rose and she said to herself: ‘‘It is un- true that I love him; on the contrary I hate him! and I won’t change any of my plans at all, or show the slightest pity to him! How dare he say papa has no right to it!’’ Aloud she re- marked consolingly: “‘Oh, perhaps the distant cousin will die; perhaps he is dead already !”’ ‘‘Unfortunately that would make no differ- ence at all, because the man has got some children, and his eldest child would then get the money.” ‘‘Horrid brats! What are they like?’ ‘“‘T really don’t know. There are two girls, I believe—grown up, I fancy.’’ Commcloooks EO)